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1999 spot capitalizes (get it?) on the .com IPO mania by selling Applebee's restaurant as if it were a hot new stock. Traders yell in excitement over the image of a burger on the screen in front of them.
Honestly, I think if you offered up shares in a burger joint in 1999, they probably would have gone way up too. Investors were not too selective. Krispy Kreme for example was talked up as if it were a tech stock on CNBC (the unofficial home of .com mania) in during its IPO in 2000.
This spot aired during A&E's "The Story of the Gun" part 2, Saturday February 20th, 1999.
1999 spot capitalizes (get it?) on the .com IPO mania by selling Applebee's restaurant as if it were a hot new stock. Traders yell in excitement over the image of a burger on the screen in front of them.
Honestly, I think if you offered up shares in a burger joint in 1999, they probably would have gone way up too. Investors were not too selective. Krispy Kreme for example was talked up as if it were a tech stock on CNBC (the unofficial home of .com mania) in during its IPO in 2000.
This spot aired during A&E's "The Story of the Gun" part 2, Saturday February 20th, 1999.
